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70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

Shows diary entries from seventy-one years ago, using today's date in Hong Kong as the starting point. To see pages from earlier dates (they go back to 1 Dec 1941), choose the date below and click the 'Apply' button.

  • 27 Apr 1945, Barbara Anslow's diary

    Submitted by Barbara Anslow on Sun, 2012-05-13 17:45
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    Barbara Anslow's diary
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    Fri, 27 Apr 1945

    Oil came, we had 2 ounce issue each.

    Soap issue.

    Apparently fighting still going on in Berlin and Europe - not the end yet.

    Clifton's father went to hospital yesterday. Clifton not well today. 

    Junior club meeting on cold windy evening in Block 3 stairway.

    Am forging ahead with writing 'Theo' story.

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  • 27 Apr 1945, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2015-04-03 12:11
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 27 Apr 1945

    Raining, colder.

    Truck hub.

    Steve gave me Suk Yin.

    2oz oil & 3oz Salt issued.

    Stalin’s son as hostage. Big concentration of war vessels W of Luzon. Montgomery for Norway. Kesselring to conduct guerrilla warfare from Oslo. Laval not allowed entrance into Switzerland. W.Sumatra bombarded & good progress made in Burma. Nearly 800,000 homes destroyed & 3 million homeless in Japan due to bombing.

  • 27 Apr 1945, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2017-04-17 11:18
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    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 27 Apr 1945

    Face slapping (Gray, Van der Lely, Seymour) ((Possibly Eve Gray, not sure which of the Van der Lely family, or Seymours this referred to.))

    (Formosans & black marketers)

    (Bulletin)


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